William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats.

“No man can improve an original invention; nor can an original invention exist without execution, organized, delineated and articulated either by God or man” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “He strove to embody more subtle raptures, more elaborate intuitions than any before him; his imagination and technique are more broken and strained under a great burden than the imagination and technique of any other master.”
  2. “he finally escaped from ‘temptations and perturbations’ which sought to destroy ‘the imaginative power’ at ‘the hands of Venetian and Flemish Demons.'”
  3. “‘I am,’ wrote Blake, ‘like others, just equal in invention and execution.'”
  4. “How do we distinguish the owl from the beast, the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline? How do we distinguish one face or countenance from another but by the bounding-line and its infinite inflections and movements? What is it that builds a house and plants a garden but the definite and determinate? What is it that distinguished honesty from knavery but the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions?”
  5. “Ideas cannot be given but in their minutely appropriate words, nor can a design be made without its minutely appropriate execution.”